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This term may have any of the following meanings depending upon context.
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Relative risk is the ratio of the risk of disease/health event among a group of people who have been exposed and the risk of disease/health event among people who have not been exposed. It gives you an idea of how strongly a health event may be associated with an exposure. If the ratio of risk is greater than one, it is possible that the exposure is associated with the disease/event. ...
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Proportion of patients experiencing an outcome in the treated group divided by the proportion experiencing the outcome in the control group.
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The term relative risk (RR) is used in epidemiologic studies to quantitatively characterize the risk of disease or death in a population exposed compared to a population unexposed. In EMF studies, because it is difficult to identify a truly "unexposed" population, researchers must compare groups who are "less exposed" to those who are "more exposed. ...
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(eg two-fold increase compared to alternative or no treatment).
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